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 Koos, Leonard R "Films Without Borders: An Introduction."
Post Script - Essays in Film and the Humanities 25:2 (Winter 2005-Spring 2006)
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- 40 qm Deutschland (Turkey / West Germany, 1986)
- Director, Tevfik Baser. The tale of a young Turkish woman who, after an arranged marriage, follows her much older husband to Hamburg, where he had been working for some time. Instead of allowing his wife to experience for herself life in this German city, the husband anxiously shields her from any contact with the host culture and keeps her a prisoner in their apartment. PAL format. In Turkish with German subtitles. 76 min. 999:2995
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- Burns, Rob. Turkish-German Cinema: From Cultural Resistance to Transnational Cinema?" In: German cinema : since unification / edited by David Clarke. London ; New York : Continuum, c2006. (Main Stack PN1993.5.G3.G359 2006)
- Adventures of Felix (Drole de Felix) (France, 2000)
- Directors, Olivier Ducastel & Jacques Martineau. Cast: Sami Bouajila, Patachou, Ariane Ascaride, Pierre-Loup Rajot, Charly Sergue, Maurice Benichou. This French comedy-drama features Felix, an unemployed, gay Frenchman of Arab descent, who has a series of adventures during a trek through the French countryside. The film examines the familiar theme of a man's search for his identity. Felix is forced to confront the anger he feels toward his father for abandoning him, and the fear and shame he feels, living as an outsider in a predominantly straight, Caucasian world. 95 min. DVD 1706
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- Ainsi meurent les anges (Senegal, 2001)
- Mory is a troubled Senegalese poet living outside Paris with his French wife and their children. His marriage falls apart under cross-cultural pressures, specifically his father's demand that he take a second wife in Senegal. Homeless in winter, separated from his children, his poems scattered over a Paris street, Mory returns to Senegal, penniless and with uncertain prospects. 57 min. 999:3240
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- 40 qm Deutschland (Turkey / West Germany, 1986)
- Director, Tevfik Baser. The tale of a young Turkish woman who, after an arranged marriage, follows her much older husband to Hamburg, where he had been working for some time. Instead of allowing his wife to experience for herself life in this German city, the husband anxiously shields her from any contact with the host culture and keeps her a prisoner in their apartment. PAL format. In Turkish with German subtitles. 76 min. 999:2995
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- And the Violins Stopped Playing (I skrzypce przestaly grac) (Poland / USA, 1988)
- Directed by Alexander Ramati. Cast: Horst Buchholz, Maya Ramati, Piotr Polk, Didi Ramati, Kasia Siwak.
Depicts a small group of gypsies escaping the German army during World War II. The group is fleeing south from Poland through Czechoslovakia and Hungary. Through all their travails there is romance with the leaders adolescent daughter and a boy from another gypsy family. The film is unique in that the hunted are not Jews or prisoners of war, but gypsies. 128 min. DVD 7339
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- April Children (Aprilkinder) (Germany, 1999)
- Directed by Yuksel Yavuz. The story of a Kurdish family in Hamburg. The brothers Cem and Mehmet live with their sister Dilan and their immigrant parents in Germany. Mehmet drifts off into a world of crime while Cem works in a meat factory and falls in love with a German prostitute before obeying his father's will and marrying a relative from his faraway Kurdish village. The "Aprilchildren" are the descendants of a generation torn between two worlds: they have lost their former native country, its traditions and its values, but are still alienated in their new country. 85 min. 999:2796
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- Beautiful People (UK, 1999)
- Directed by Jasmin Dizdar. Cast: Linda Bassett, Charlotte Coleman, Edin Dzandzanovic, Nicolas Farrell, Julian Firth, Walentine Giorgiewa, Dado Jehan.
"In London, during October 1993, England is playing Holland in the preliminaries of the World Cup. The Bosnian War is at its height, and refugees from the ex-Yugoslavia are arriving. Football rivals, and political adversaries from the Balkans all precipitate conflict and amusing situations. Meanwhile, the lives of four English families are affected in different ways by encounter with the refugees; one of the]families improbably becomes involved with a Balkan refugee through the England vs. Holland match." [IMDB] 117 min. DVD 1948
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- Bend It Like Beckham (UK / Germany / USA, 2002)
- Directed by Gurinder Chadha. Cast: Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Anupam Kher, Archie Panjabi, Shaznay Lewis, Frank Harper, Juliet Stevenson. Eighteen year-old Jesminder's parents want her to be a nice, conventional Indian girl. But she just wants to play soccer like her hero, David Beckham. For Jess, that means kicking a ball around the local park with the lads until she's spotted by Jules, who invites her to join the local women's team. 112 min. DVD 1948
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- Bhaji on the Beach (UK, 1995)
- Directed by Gurinder Chadha. A comedy about a group of Indian women, living in England, who are brought together by a day at the beach. In the course of their day together , their ordinary lives become an extraordinary celebration. A unique look at female friendship. 100 min. Video 999:1331
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- Black Dju! (Luxembourg, 1996)
- Directed by Pol Cruchten. From the sun of the Cape Verde Island, its a very big step to rainy, land-locked Luxembourg, but that's the journey Dju Dele Dibonga takes to track down his dad, whose yearly visits and monthly guest worker checks have stopped. Dju has to face overzealous immigration cops and an outraged police lieutenant who eventually joins in the hunt, becoming Dju's partner in this tale of love and friendship. In Portuguese and French with English subtitles. 80 min. 999:1987
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- Black Girl (La Noire de--) (Senegal/France, 1966)
- Directed by Sembene Ousmane. A young Senegalese servant girl accompanies a white family in its move to France. Harsh treatment leads her to lose all self-esteem and she commits suicide. The couple returns to Dakar to offer the girl's parents money, but they refuse it. The film raises questions on neo-colonialism, migrant workers and passivity vs. protest. In French with English subtitles. 56 min. DVD 5341; vhs 999:3114
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- Schwarzfahrer (Black Rider) (Germany, 1993)
- Directed by Pepe Danquart. Cast: Senta Moira, Paul Outlaw. A young black man is verbally harassed by an older woman on a streetcar, while the other passengers remain silent. He finally extracts his revenge. 12 min. DVD 6:1:1
- Born in Absurdistan (ne en Absurdistan) (Austria, 1999)
- Directed by Franco Brusati. Cast: Julia Stemberger; Karl Markovics, Meltem Cumbul, Ahmet Ugurlu, Josef Hader. In the hospital the new-born babies of an Austrian couple and a Turkish family of immigrant workers are mixed up and go home with the wrong parents. By the time the mistake comes to light, the Turkish family has been deported so the Austrian couple begins a confusing odyssey through Turkey to track down the family to their native village in order to exchange their children. 104 min. DVD 2122
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- Burns, Rob. Turkish-German Cinema: From Cultural Resistance to Transnational Cinema?" In: German cinema : since unification / edited by David Clarke. London ; New York : Continuum, c2006. (Main Stack PN1993.5.G3.G359 2006)
- Bread and Chocolate (Pane e Cioccolata) (Italy, 1973)
- Directed by Franco Brusati. A comic but poignant portrait of an Italian immigrant working odd jobs in prosperous Switzerland and trying desperately to fit in. Though his work becomes increasingly degrading, he tenaciously refuses to give up and go home. This hapless Everyman is eternally rejected yet ever-hopeful. 109 min. 999:1560
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- Brothers in Trouble (UK, 1996)
- Directed by Udayan Prasad. Paints a vivid portrait of the secret lives and loves of a group of illegal Pakistani immigrants in 1960's Britain. When Hussein, the leader of a house overcrowded with desperate, lonely men, brings home his British, pregnant girlfriend, the delicate balance that maintains the men's lives is undone. 98 min. 999:2343
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- Bye-Bye (France / Belgium / Switzerland, 1995)
- Director, Karin Dridi. Cast: Sami Bouajila, Nozha Kouadra, Philippe Ambrosini. After a family tragedy, two young French-Arab brothers leave Paris and end up on the door step of their uncle and his family in Marseilles. Once there, the two are pulled apart as one is seduced by the streets and its life of drugs and crime, while the other desperately seeks to rescue his brother without falling to its temptations. 107 min. 999:3497
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- Bwana (Spain, 1988)
- Directed by Imanol Uribe. A taxi driver and his family picnic on a lonely beach where they meet Ombasi, an African newly arrived in Spain in search of his fortune. They spend a pleasant night talking but the morning brings a terrible surprise: the arrival of a group of neonazis.Based on the theatrical work by Ignacio del Moral,"La Mirada del Hombre Sscuro." PAL format. In Spanish without titles. 82 min. 999:1788
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- Santaolalla, Isabel. "The Representation of Ethnicity and 'Race' in Contemporary Spanish Cinema." Cineaste. Winter 2003. Vol. 29, Iss. 1; p. 44 UC users only
- Code inconnu: Récit incomplet de divers voyages (Code Unknown: Incomplete Yales of Several Journeys)(France / Germany / Romania, 2000)
- Director, Michael Haneke. Cast: Juliette Binoche, Thierry Neuvic, Ona Lu Yenke, Sepp Bierbichler, Arsinee Khanjian. On a bustling Paris street corner four separate livesintersect, interweaving the stories of a promising actress, her photojournalist boyfriend, a teacher of African descent and a Romanian illegal immigrant in this portrait of life in a fractured, lonely world. 113 min. DVD 2051
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- Cool! (Netherlands, 2004)
- Directed by Theo van Gogh. Cast: Fouad Mourigh, Farhane El Hamchaoui, Jones Kruijne, Remco Alberts, Julien de Roover.
Set to gangsta rap, this film tells the tale of three teenage criminals - (Abdel, Jacky, and Jeffrey) - who end up doing time in a juvenile detention center after messing up a bank robbery. Abdel, who has been changed for the better by his time in the correctional system, learns that their former gang-leader Prof is setting up another big heist. Abdel decides that Prof needs to be taken down and sets about sabotaging Prof's plan. 125 min. DVD 8247
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- Dealer (Germany, 1999)
- Director, Thomas Arslan. Can is a small time drug dealer in a Turkish "guest worker" community in Berlin. He is not happy with his situation, constantly trying to reconcile the irreconcilable elements in his life: drugs, family, street violence and love. When his boss Hakan promises to make him a bar manager his hopes are raised but then Hakan is killed and Can is eventually arrested and condemned to four years in prison. PAL format. In German and Turkish. 80 min. 999:2997
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- Burns, Rob. Turkish-German Cinema: From Cultural Resistance to Transnational Cinema?" In: German cinema : since unification / edited by David Clarke. London ; New York : Continuum, c2006. (Main Stack PN1993.5.G3.G359 2006)
- Dirty Pretty Things (UK, 2002)
- Directed by Stephen Frears. Cast: Audrey Tautou, Sergi Lopez, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sophie Okonedo, Benedict Wong, Zlatko Buric, Kriss Dosanjh, Israel Aduramo, Yemi Ajibade, Nizwar Karanj,Dhobi Oparei. Nigerian exile Okwe and Turkish chambermaid Senay toil at a west London hotel that is full of illegal activity. Late one night Okwe makes a shocking discovery, which creates an impossible dilemma and tests the limits of all they know. 97 min. DVD 2389
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- Drachenfutter (Dragon Chow) (West Germany, 1987)
- Directed by Jan Schütte. Cast: Bhasker, Ric Young, Buddy Uzzaman.
In this moving story an Asian political refugee arrives in Hamburg and finds himself in a land of welfare hotels and con men. He manages to land a job at a Chinese restaurant where he joins forces with a friend in an attempt to open their own restaurant and storm the citadel of Western capitalism. 75 min. 999:3057
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- Eastern Promises (UK / Canada / USA, 2007)
- Directed by David Cronenberg. Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, Vincent Cassel, Armin Mueller-Stahl.
The mysterious and ruthless Nikolai is tied to one of London's most notorious organized crime families. His carefully maintained existence is jarred when he crosses paths with Anna, an innocent midwife trying to right a wrong, who accidentally uncovers potential evidence against the family. Now Nikolai must put into motion a harrowing chain of murder, deceit, and retribution. Special features: Secrets and stories: see how director David Cronenberg brought the screenplay to life in the dark and forbidding streets of London; Marked for life: director David Cronenberg reveals the hidden history behind Russian tattoos as well as their complex symbolism and unique visual storytelling. 101 min. DVD 9256
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- Exiles (France / Japan, 2004)
- Directed by Tony Gatlif. Cast: Romain Duris, Lubna Azabal, Leila Makhlouf, Zouhir Gacem, Habib Cheikh. A young couple, both of Arabic descent, leave Paris with no money, jobs, or connections, and travel to their ancestral home of Algeria. In search of re-connecting to their roots, they cross three countries by foot, bus, train, and hitched rides. 104 min. DVD 5393
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- Fear Eats the Soul (Angst Essen Seele Auf)(West Germany, 1974)
- Directed by Rainer Fassbinder. Cast: Brigitte Mira, El Hedi Ben Salem, Barbara Valentin, Irm Hermann, Elma Karlowa, Anita Bucher, Gusti Kreissl, Doris Mattes, Margit Symo. A Moroccan immigrant in Munich comes up against social and racial prejudice when he marries a sixty-year-old charwoman. 94 min. DVD 1725; vhs 999:622
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- Flores de Otro Mundo (Flowers from Another World) (Spain, 1999)
- Directed by Icíar Bollaín. Cast: José Sancho, Luis Tosar, Lissete Mejia, Marlin Torres, Chete Lera. "Patricia, a woman from Dominican Republic, needs a home and an economic security that her illegal status in Madrid does not provide her. Milady, twenty, born in Havana and dying to travel the world. Marirosi has a job, a home, and the most complete solitude... just like Alfonso, Damián and Carmelo, men from the St. Eulalia, a village lacking both marrying women and future. A bachelors' party forces the encounter between them and the beginning of this bittersweet story of sharing a living." [IMDB] 100 min. DVD 5242
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- Santaolalla, Isabel. "The Representation of Ethnicity and 'Race' in Contemporary Spanish Cinema." Cineaste. Winter 2003. Vol. 29, Iss. 1; p. 44 UC users only
- A Fond Kiss--(UK / Belgium / Germany / Italy / Spain, 2004)
- Directed by Ken Loach. Cast: Atta Yaqub, Eva Birthistle, Shamshad Akhtar, Ahmad Riaz, Shabana Bakhsh.
A second generation Pakistani in Glasgow falls for the White, Irish Catholic music teacher at his sister's school. They try to make the relationship work despite a tentative arranged marriage and parental and societal pressures. 114 min. DVD 6806
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- Fratricide (Brudermord)(Luxembourg / Germany / France, 2005)
- Directed by Yilmaz Arslan. Cast: Xevat Gectan, Erdal Celik, Bulent Buyukasik, Nurettin Celik, Yusuf Gectan, Taies Farzan, Oral Uyan, Xhiljona Ndoja.
Amidst hopeless squalor, four young exiles -- two Kurds, two Turks -- meet in Germany, unleashing a nightmarish cycle of violence they believed they had left behind. 92 min. DVD 7262
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- Das Fräulein (Germany / Switzerland / Bosnia-Herzegovina, 2006)
- Director, Andrea Staka. Cast: Mirjana Karanovcic, Marija Skarcic, Ljubica Jovic. Tells the story of two Balkan refugees. Reza owns a restaurant and has lived in Switzerland for 25 years. Ana is a Bosnian who breezes into Reza's life and injects both joy and discontent.
81 min min. DVD 8071
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- From the Edge of the City (Apo tin akri tis polis)(Greece, 1998)
- Directed by Constantinos Giannaris. Cast: Stathis Papadopoulos, Costas Cotsianidis, Panagiotis Chartomatsidis, Anestis Polychronidis, Dimitris Papoulidis. Buff and eighteen, Sasha lives with his mother and father in a Kazakhstan immigrant settlement on the outskirts of Athens. At night, he and his teenaged friends rollerblade through the city, where they hang out in brothels and work as male prostitutes. Every day they endure an obstacle course of johns, drug dealers, pimps and gangsters, as they try desperately to survive in a country that is not their own. 94 min. DVD 1319
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- Games of Love & Chance (L'Esquive) (France, 2003)
- Directed by Abdellatif Kechiche. Cast: Osman Elkharraz, Sara Forestier, Sabrina Ouazani, Nanou Benhamou, Haffet Ben-Ahmed, Aurelie Ganito, Carole Franck, Hajar Hamlili, Rachid Hami, Meriem Serbah, Hanane Mazouz, Sylvain Phan. A sensitive portrait of a group of teenagers living in the projects outside Paris and surviving in a world marginalized by society. Set during preparations for a school production, it captures the affections, quarrels, and jealousies as well as the budding romance between childhood friends Krimo, who is very shy, and Lydia, the fiery blonde star of the school production. 117 min. DVD 5446
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- Geschwister Kardesler(Germany, 1997)
- Director, Thomas Arslan. Cast: Tamer Yigit, Savas Yurderi, Serpil Turhan, Hildegard Kuttlenberg, Fazlt Yurderi. A film about three young siblings from a German-Turkish family living in Berlin. 17-year-old Leyla only wants to escape from her family while her brother, called to military service in Istanbul intends to accept enlistment, against the advice of his mother and brother Ahmed, who is just about to graduate from high school and having difficulties with his girlfriend and his cultural background. PAL format. In German and Turkish. 82 min. 999:2998
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- Burns, Rob. Turkish-German Cinema: From Cultural Resistance to Transnational Cinema?" In: German cinema : since unification / edited by David Clarke. London ; New York : Continuum, c2006. (Main Stack PN1993.5.G3.G359 2006)
- Le Gone du Chaaba (France, 1997)
- Director, Christophe Ruggia. Cast: Bouzid Negnoug, Mohamed Fellag, Nabil Ghalem. Set in 1956 France in a city slum outside of Lyons, a poor Algerian father wants his son to be the best in school, although the boy is not very gifted. 105 min. DVD 1265
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- Goodness Gracious Me(BBC Television, 1998-2000)
- Produced by Anil Gupta; directed by Nick Wood. Cast: Sanjeev Bhaskar, Meera Syal, Kulvinder Ghir, Nina Wadia. A British television comedy series presenting a satirical exploration of racial stereotypes in Britain, as seen from an Indian point-of-view. With a stunning stream of sketches and songs presents series 1, 2, and 3 plus the special "Back where they came from." Originally presented on BBC television between 1998 and 2000. 580 min. DVD 3793 (series 1 also VHS Video/C 8527)
- Hate (La Haine) (France, 1995)
- Directed by Mathieu Kassovitz. Cast: Vincent Cassel, Hubert Kounde, Said Taghmaoui, Abdel Ahmed Ghili, Solo, Joseph Momo, Heloise Rauth. Said is an Arab, Hubert is black, Vinz is a jew, all living in Paris. Each of them needs to vent the anger they feel about the police brutality that landed another friend in the hospital. Vinz finds a Smith & Wesson .44 that sparks the shocking climax after the boys tangle with the cops and a gang of skinheads. 95 min.DVD 7386, DVD 5603 (non-US DVD; also on vhs 999:1644
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- Head-On (Gegen die Wand) (Germany / Turkey, 2004)
- Directed by Fatih Akin. Cast: Sibel Kekilli, Birol Unel, Guven Krac, Meltem Cumbul, Catrin Striebeck. A melodrama of a Turkish man and woman living in Germany, torn between two cultures, tradition and modernity, survival and death. 118 min. DVD 4315
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- Burns, Rob. Turkish-German Cinema: From Cultural Resistance to Transnational Cinema?" In: German cinema : since unification / edited by David Clarke. London ; New York : Continuum, c2006. (Main Stack PN1993.5.G3.G359 2006)
- Fachinger, Petra. "A New Kind of Creative Energy: Yadé Kara's Selam Berlin and Faith Akin's Kurz und schmerzlos and Gegen die Wand." German Life and Letters, vol. 60, no. 2, pp. 243-60, Spring 2007UC users only
- Reading, Alan. "Immigration, live, on screen." The New York Times Jan. 24, 2005
- Hop (Belgium, 2002)
- Directed by Dominique Standaert. Cast: Jan Declein, Antjie de Boeck, Alexandra Vandernot, Kalomba Mbuyi, Ansou Diedhiou, Emile M'Penza. All Justin and his father want is to enjoy a soccer game together. This sparks a chain of events that leads to his father's deportation, and Justin finds himself alone and on the run. Enlisting the help of a former anarchist, Justin embarks on a thrilling adventure to re-unite with his father. But to fight the system, he will need to apply the secret of the Hop. 107 min. DVD 6329
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- Hostage (Omiros) (Greece / Turkey, 2005)
- Directed by Constantine Giannaris. Cast: Stathis Papadopoulos, Theodora Tzimou, Giannis Stankoglou.
In a desperate attempt to reclaim his honor, a young Albanian immigrant hijacks a bus in northern Greece. Demanding a ransom and safe return to his country, he holds the passengers hostage at gunpoint. Based on a true story. 97 min. DVD 7215
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- I Can't Sleep (J'ai pas sommeil) (France / Switzerland, 2000)
- Directed by Clair Denis. Cast: Katerina Golubeva, Richard Courcet, Vincent Dupont, Laurent Grevill, Alex Descas, Irina Grejbina, Tolsty, Line Renaud, Beatrice Dalle. "Claire Denis's rich and provocative drama examines themes of urban alienation and individual/community identity in a puzzling narrative framework. Katerina Golubeva plays Daiga, a recent Lithuanian emigre who is seeking a place to live and work. A second narrative examines the lives of a large expatriate Caribbean family, including Theo (Alex Descas), a musician, and Camille (Richard Courcet), a transvestite nightclub singer. One of these individuals is a serial killer - and the other two are tangentially involved in that horrible secret. "Creepy in a very post-modern way, it's a Godard film without Godard: eerie, touching, and fraught with meaning." (Mark Savlov, The Austin Chronicle). 96 min. 999:3268
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- Im Juli (In July) (Germany, 2000)
- Directed by Fatih Akin. Cast: Moritz Bleibtreu, Christiane Paul, Mehmet Kurtulus, Idil Uner, Jochen Nickel, Branka Katic, Birol Unel, Sandra Borgmann, Ernest Hausmann, Gabor Salinger, Cem Akin, Fatih Akin. Daniel, a young teacher, decides to spend his summer at home in Hamburg. At the local flea market, he meets Juli, who is immediately attracted to him, a fact to which Daniel seems oblivious. On the same day, Daniel meets Melek, a young Turkish girl, with whom he is immediately smitten. Ignoring his earlier plans, he sets out in pursuit of her across the Balkans. Along the way he picks up a hitchhiker, who just happens to be Juli. 96 min. DVD 2849
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- Burns, Rob. Turkish-German Cinema: From Cultural Resistance to Transnational Cinema?" In: German cinema : since unification / edited by David Clarke. London ; New York : Continuum, c2006. (Main Stack PN1993.5.G3.G359 2006)
- In This World (UK, 2002)
- Directed by Michael Winterbottom. Cast: Jamal Udin Torabi, Enayatullah. Tells of the hazardous journey of two Afghan boys as they travel from Pakistan through Iran, Turkey, Italy, France and the UK in search of refuge in London, revealing the desperate measures people take to escape persecution and life-threatening conditions. Special features: Behind-the-scenes footage with commentary from Michael Winterbottom and Tony Grisoni; director's introduction from the Sundance Film Series; U.S. and UK theatrical trailers; production notes and biographies; highlights from the 2003 Sundance Film Series. 88 min. DVD 2410
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- Inch'Allah Dimanche (Algeria, France, 2001)
- Director, Yamina Benguigui. Film about the "family reunion," the French government's euphemism for a 1974 law allowing Algerian wives to rejoin their husbands working in France. Strong-willed Zouina parts tearfully from her mother in the port of Algiers; once in France, she and her three small children are at the mercy of her mother-in-law and confused by the strange customs of their local grocer and garden-obsessed neighbor. The radio is her only window on life and on the women of this new country. 98 min. DVD 1907
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- Alion, Yves. "Inch'Allah Dimanche: Entretien avec Yamina Benguigui."
Avant Scène Cinéma, vol. 506, pp. 136-38, November 2001
- Fenner, Angelica. "Aural Topographies of Migration in Yamina Benguigui's Inch'Allah dimanche." Camera Obscura: A Journal of Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies, vol. 22, no. 66[3], pp. 93-127, 2007
- Humblot, Catherine Documentaires et reportages: "Mémoires d'immigrés, l'héritage maghrébin" CinémAction 87 (April-June 1998)
- Journey of Hope (Reise der Hoffnung) (Switzerland / Turkey / UK, 1990)
- Director, Xavier Koller. Based on true events, this is the story of a poor Kurdish family from Turkey who struggle to reach their promised land, Switzerland. Haydar decides to emigrateillegally but finds himself and his family at the mercy of their smugglers. As the journey progresses, every step costs more than promised until, by the time they reach the Swiss borders, they have lost all of their money. With nothing but their dream to sustain them they face crossing the brutally cold and dangerous Swiss Mountains. 111 min. 999:2881
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- Katzelmacher (West Germany, 1969)
- Director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Cast: Hanna Schygulla, Rainer Maria Fassbinder, Rudolf Waldemar Brem, Elga Sorbas, Doris Mattes and Orm Hermann.
Follows the lives of an aimless group of friends who spend their days outside their Munich apartment smoking cigarettes, drinking coffee and sleeping with each other. Their lives take an interesting turn when a Greek immigrant moves in and evokes extremely hostile reactions from the men in the group who beat him up when he begins dating one of the German women. 88 min. DVD 2491
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- Kebab Connection (Germany, 2005)
- Director, Anno Saul. Cast: Denis Moschitto, Nora Tschirner, Guven Kirac.
A young Turkish hip-hopper dreams of making the first German kung-fu film, and he hones his craft by making an extremely successful commercial for his uncle's kebab stand. When his second commercial is a flop, his German girfriend tells him she is pregnant, and his parents kick him out of the house, he gives in to the temptations of the rival Greek restaurant owner across the street and agrees to make a commercial for his uncle's worst enemy. Based loosely on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. 96 min. DVD 7214
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- Burns, Rob. Turkish-German Cinema: From Cultural Resistance to Transnational Cinema?" In: German cinema : since unification / edited by David Clarke. London ; New York : Continuum, c2006. (Main Stack PN1993.5.G3.G359 2006)
- The Kumars at no. 42 (BBC Television, 2001)
- Written by Richard Pinto, Sharat Sardana, Sanjeev Bhaskar; directed by Lissa Evans. Cast: Sanjeev Bhaskar, Vincent Ebrahim, Indira Joshi, Meera Syal. In this British television sit-com the Kumars, a fictional immigrant family, have bulldozed their back garden to build a studio for their spoilt son Sanjeev, who fancies himself a celebrity chat show host. Each week, celebrity guests partake in the unique Kumar experience: a thorough interrogation by the entire family. 70 min. Video/C 8527
- Kurz und Schmerzlos (Short Sharp Shock) (Germany, 1998)
- Director/script, Fatih Akin. Cast: Mehmet Kurtulus, Aleksandar Jovanovic, Adam Bousdoukos, Regula Grauwiller, Idil Uner, Ralph Herforth. The story of three friends of foreign nationality living in Hamburg. Gabriel, a son of Turkish parents starts a new life after leaving jail. The Serb Bobby, on the other hand, starts out on a criminal career with the Albanian mafia. He and his Greek friend Costa get tangled up in an arms deal that proves to be too big for the young men. 95 min. 999:3658; or 999:2996 (in German with no subtitles)
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- Burns, Rob. Turkish-German Cinema: From Cultural Resistance to Transnational Cinema?" In: German cinema : since unification / edited by David Clarke. London ; New York : Continuum, c2006. (Main Stack PN1993.5.G3.G359 2006)
- Burns, Rob. Turkish-German Cinema: From Cultural Resistance to Transnational Cinema?" In: German cinema : since unification / edited by David Clarke. London ; New York : Continuum, c2006. (Main Stack PN1993.5.G3.G359 2006)
- Fachinger, Petra. "A New Kind of Creative Energy: Yadé Kara's Selam Berlin and Faith Akin's Kurz und schmerzlos and Gegen die Wand." German Life and Letters, vol. 60, no. 2, pp. 243-60, Spring 2007UC users only
- Hamm-Ehsani, Karin. "Screening Transnational Turkish Community in Fatih Akin's Kurz und schmerzlos (Short Sharp Shock)." Culture & Communication, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 101-28, Summer 2005
- Heckmann-Yalçin, Lale. "Negotiating Identities: Media Representations of Different Generations of Turkish Migrants in Germany." In: Fragments of culture : the everyday of modern Turkey / edited by Deniz Kandiyoti and Ayse Saktanber. London ; New York: I.B. Tauris, 2002. (Anthropology DR432.F73 2002b)
- Little Jerusalem (La Petite Jerusalem) (France, 2005)
- Directed by Karin Albou. Cast: Fanny Valette, Elsa Zylberstein, Bruno Todeschini, Hedi Tillette de Clermont-Tonnerre, Sonia Tahar, Michael Cohen, Aurore Clement. In a Paris suburb nicknamed Little Jerusalem, a family of Sephardic Orthodox immigrants shares a low-income apartment. Beautiful, teenaged Laura distances herself from her family's religion and her own burgeoning desire by devoting every waking moment to intellectual discipline and secular philosophy. Mathilde, Laura's married older sister, worries that strict observance of the Torah's marital codes has driven her husband Ariel into the bed of another. When Laura falls under the spell of Djamel, a handsome Muslim journalist, and Mathilde discovers that her worst fears are true, the two very different sisters find themselves in very similar crises. 94 min. DVD 6159
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- Living in Paradise (Vivre au paradis) (France/Algeria, 1998)
- Director, Bourlem Guerdjou. Set in France in 1961-1962 during the Algerian War, this drama presents a vivid account of the exploitation and political repression of an Algerian immigrant worker living in Paris in the squalid and miserable conditions of the shantytowns. He longs to see his family and brings them from Algeria to live with him in his makeshift hut -- with disastrous results. 105 min. 999:3527
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- Lola und Bilidikid (Lola and Billy the Kid) (1999)
- Director, Kutlug Ataman. Cast: Gandi Mukli, Erdal Yildiz, Baki Davrak, Inge Keller, Celal Perk. Murat from Turkey, living in Berlin Germany, slowly discovers his homosexuality. His older brother Osman wants him to finally lose his virginity in a heterosexual manner thus causing Murat to run away. In a bar, Murat meets a tranvestite, Lola, and also Bilidikid, who thinks Murat is enamoured with Lola. Eventually Lola is revealed as Murat's actual brother disowned by Osman years ago. 93 min. DVD 722
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- Burns, Rob. Turkish-German Cinema: From Cultural Resistance to Transnational Cinema?" In: German cinema : since unification / edited by David Clarke. London ; New York : Continuum, c2006. (Main Stack PN1993.5.G3.G359 2006)
- Clark, Christopher. "Transculturation, Transe Sexuality, and Turkish Germany: Kutlug Ataman's Lola und Bilidikid." German Life and Letters, vol. 59, no. 4, pp. 555-72, Fall 2006
- Hillman, Roger. "Lola and Billy the Kid (1999): A Turkish Director's Western Showdown in Berlin." Post Script: Essays in Film and the Humanities, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 44-55, Winter 2006
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- Ma 6-T va crack-er (France, 1997)
- Directed by Jean-François Richet. Cast: Arco Descat C., Jean-Marie Robert, Malik Zeggou, Mustapha Ziad, and Karim Rezeg.
A portrait of the aimless lives of unemployed inner city youths living on society's fringe in the suburbs of a French city. The film centers on two teenaged gangs who terrorize their neighborhoods. There are few limits to their unpleasant philosophy of "desire equals acquisition." The film reaches its climax at a nightclub where the two rival groups collide when a gun fight breaks out. 97 min. DVD 8792
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- My Beautiful Laundrette (UK, 1986)
- Directed by Stephen Frears; starring Saeed Jaffrey, Roshan Seth, Daniel Day Lewis, Gordon Warnecke. Set in the Pakistani community in South London, the film focuses on two youths--Johnny, a working-class white, and Omar, a Pakistani. Together they operate a laundrette, which Omar inherits from his uncle. While Johnny looks upon the laundrette as a life line on which to salvage his self-respect, Omar sees it as just the beginning step on the road to riches. Based on Hanif's Kureishi novel (UCB Main PR6061.U68 M9 1996; PN1997 .M8871 1986) DVD 1635; vhs 999:431
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- My Son the Fanatic (UK / France, 1999)
- Directed by Udayan Prasad. Parvez, a cab driver who left Pakistan for Great Britain in search of a better life must choose between his relationship with his disinterested wife, his increasingly Islamic fundamentalist son and his friendship with a prostitute who provides him support and tenderness he does not experience within his own family. 87 min. DVD 9114; vhs 999:2649
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- Najib & Julia(Netherlands, TV, 2002)
- Director, Theo van Gogh. Cast: Tara Elders, Hanin Msellek, Jack Wouterse, Marlies Heuer. In this modern-day Romeo and Juliet story made for Dutch television, a hockey player, Julia, falls in love with a Moroccan pizza-delivery boy, Najib. In Dutch without subtitles. 300 min. DVD 7824
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- No Fear, No Die (S'en fout la mort) (France / West Germany, 1990)
- Director, Claire Denis. Set in France, Dah, an African immigrant, and Jocelyn, a West Indian man, supply and train fighting cocks for a sleazy French saloon owner. Once Dah becomes entangled with the owner's mistress, all four characters are cast into a violent circle of gambling, desire, and agony that spins out of control. 97 min. 999:3247
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- Nordrand (Austria / Germany / Switzerland, 1999)
- Directed by Werner Herzog. Cast: Nina Proll, Edita Malovcic, Tudor Chirila, Astrit Alihajdaraj, Michael Tanczos, Georg Friedrich.
Five young refugees from the former Yugoslavia seek comfort in one another as they try to build new lives in Vienna. 138 min. DVD 7690
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- 100% Arabica (Cent pour cent Arabica; One hundred percent Arabica) (France / Belgium / Switzerland, 1997)
- Director, Mahmoud Zemmouri. Cast: Khaled, Cheb Mami, Mouss, Najim Laouriga, Fard Fedjer, Youssef Diawara, Patrice Thibaud, Mohamed Camara. The rising popularity of a local band threatens orthodox religious groups in a mixed Arab and African housing project outside Paris. Attendance at the mosque falls and drastic measures are taken to keep the balance of power in the hands of the religious leaders. No one can stop the infectious popularity of the music, however, and when all the musicians finally sing together, everyone is united. 85 min. DVD 6001
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- Otomo (Germany, 1999)
- Directed by Frieder Schlaich. Cast: Isaach De Bankole, Eva Mattes, Hanno Friedrich, Barnaby Metschurat, Lara Kugler, Sigrid Burkholder. A fictionalized reconstruction of the story of Frederic Otomo, a West African political refugee, who is stopped on a subway by an intolerant conductor. He panics, breaks loose, and escapes. Hours later, when confronted by police, he stabs 5 officers before being gunned down by one of them. 84 min. DVD 6630
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- Pieces d'identites (France / Democratic Republic of Congo / Belgium, 1998)
- Director, Mweze Ngangura. A Congolese king searches for his daughter in Brussels where for a time he loses his royal fetishes, his identity, but finds a friend, a local cabdriver with a secret identity. With his help and a chain of coincidence (it must be destined), Mani Kongo is reunited with his daughter and his regalia and returns to Africa with a circle of friends. 93 min. 999:2220
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- Salut Cousin! (Hey Cousin!) (France / Algeria / Belgium / Luxembourg, 1996)
- Directed by Allouache, Merzak.
In the poor tenements of Paris, a young Algerian hooks up with his cousin Mok, a would-be rap star, pathological liar and an irrepressible guide to the Paris underground scene. 103 min. 999:3096
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- Rosello, Mireille. "Merzak Allouache's Salut Cousin! Immigrants, Hosts, and Parasites." South Central Review, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 104-18, October 2000 UC users only
- Samia (France, 2000)
- Director, Philippe Faucon. Cast: Lynda Benahouda, Mohamed Chaouch, Kheira Oualhaci, Nadia El Koutei, Yamina Amri, Lakhdar Smati. Samia, an Algerian teenager, has immigrated with her large family to Marseilles, where she must cope with both racism and her family's own restrictions on her personal freedom. Her brother, Yacine appoints himself the protector of Samia's moral and physical virtue and after their father is hospitalized and it becomes apparent that Samia's sister is having a relationship with a French boy, she responds to the pressures by becoming increasingly rebellious. PAL format. 135 min. 999:3272
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- Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (UK, 1987)
- Directed by Stephen Frears. Cast: Shashi Kapoor, Frances Barber, Claire Bloom, Ayub Khan Din, Roland Gift, Wendy Gazelle. London's out of control in the punked-out Eighties and Rosie's radical politics land her in everyone's bed but Sammy's - but if they want to inherit Rafi's fortune, they'll have to come up with the grandchild he wants. 97 min. 999:3575
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- Tea in the Harem (Le Thé au harem d'Archimède) (France, 1985)
- Directed by Mehdi Charef. Story of a North African living in Paris, Madjid, and his encounters with friends, authorities, and life. 110 min. 999:1646
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Gypsies (Romanies, et al.)
- Alma Gitana (Spain,1996)
- Directed by Chus Gutiérrez. A young man who wants to become a professional dancer falls in love with a gypsy girl but comes to realize how much he conflicts with her completely different cultural background. In Spanish without titles. PAL format. 97 min. 999:1784
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- And the Violins Stopped Playing: A True Story (I skrzypce przestaly grac)(Poland / USA, 1988)
- Director, Alexander Ramati. Horst Buchholz, Maya Ramati, Piotr Polk, Didi Ramati, Kasia Siwak. Depicts a small group of gypsies escaping the German army during World War II. The group is fleeing south from Poland through Czechoslovakia and Hungary. Through all their travails there is romance with the leaders adolescent daughter and a boy from another gypsy family. The film is unique in that the hunted are not Jews or prisoners of war, but gypsies. 128 min. DVD (PAL, region 5) DVD 7339
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- Black Cat White Cat (Crna macka, beli macor) (France / Germany / Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, 1998)
- Directed by Emir Kusturica. Grga Pitic and Zarije Destanov are two old friends--and rivals--who haven't seen each other in years. But a series of events beyond their wildest dreams leads to a raucously funny reunion filled with gypsy mobsters, dirty deals and shotgun weddings. 129 min. 999:2984
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- Fille de l'eau (Whirlpool of Fate)(France, 1925)
- Directed by Jean Renoir. Cast: Catherine Hessling, Pierre Philippe, Marc Rosaert, Harold Lewingston, Maurice Touze.
After the suspicious death of her father a young girl runs away from her brutal uncle and joins a Gypsy camp. 72 min. DVD 7586
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- Gadjo Dilo (Crazy Stranger) (Romania / France, 1997)
- Directed by Tony Gatlif. Cast: Romain Duris, Rona Hartner, Isidor Serban, Ovidiu Balan, Angela Serban.
A young French man, in search of a legendary Gypsy singer, is taken in by a Gypsy community in Romania. The inhabitants at first do not like him but as they grow to know him he is accepted and learns their ways of talking, drinking, dancing, and cursing. 96 min. DVD 6458; vhs 999:2256
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- Golden Earrings (USA, 1947)
- Directed by Mitchell Leisen. Cast: Marlene Dietrich, Ray Milland, Murvyn Vye, Bruce Lester, Reinhold Schunzel, Quentin Reynolds.
On the eve of World War II (1939) English officer Ralph Denistoun is in Nazi Germany on an espionage mission to recover a poison gas formula from Prof. Krosigk. There he meets Lydia and her band of gypsies who help him to disguise himself and complete his mission. Naturally romance develops along the way. 96 min. DVD 6912
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- Grafin Mariza (West Germany, 1958)
- Directed by Rudolf Schundler. Cast: Christine Gorner, Rudolf Schock, Renate Ewert, Gunther Philipp, Hans Moser. To avoid her amorous neighbor Countess Mariza pretends to be a simple gypsy girl while visiting her estate and falls in love with the manager. Set in the beautiful Hungarian countryside this fast paced musical is based on Kalman's famous operetta, with all its gypsy music and hit songs. In German. 103 min. 999:2801
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- Gypsies are Found Near Heaven (Tabor ukhodit v nebo) (Soviet Union, 1995)
- Directed by Emil Loteanu. Cast: Grigore Grigoriu, Svetlana Toma, Ion Sandri Shkurya, Pavel Andreichenko, Sergiu Finiti, Borislav Brondukov, Lialya Chornaya, Nelli Volshaninova, Vsevolod Gavrilov, Barasbi Mulayev, Mikhail Shishkov, Nikolai Volshaninov, Vassily Simich, Yelena Sadovskaya.
This colorful, music-filled and sensual melodrama based on early stories by Maxim Gorky tells the fatal love story between the beautiful and rebellious girl Rada and the handsome horse thief Zobar. The story is set in early 20th century Bessarabia, now part of Moldova, then belonging to the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Special features: Maxim Gorky's biography; interviews with actress S. Toma and composer Y. Doga; filmographies; photo album. Based on a story by Maxim Gorky. 101 min.DVD 7855
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- Gypsy Blood (Carmen) (1918)
- Directed by Ernst Lubitsch. The tale of a Gypsy who seduces a guard, turns him into a murderer and a robber then decides to leave him for another man. The guard ends up killing her and himself.
78 min. 999:291
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- Hurlevent (Wuthering Heights) (France, 1985)
- Director, Jacques Rivette. Cast: Fabienne Babe, Lucas Belvaux, Sandra Montaigu, Alice de Poncheville. Based on Emily Bronte's 19th-century novel, this film sets the drama in the French countryside of the 1930s. Tells the story of the tormented love affair between two childhood sweethearts, Catherine, a headstrong young woman, and Roc, a fiery young gypsy. 126 min. DVD 1818; DVD 4584 (PAL)
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- The Man Without a World (USA, 1992)
- Directed by Eleanor Antin. Cast: Pier Marton, Christine Berry, Anna Henriques, Eleanor Antin.
A contemporary vision of an imagined 1928 Yiddish movie set in an Eastern European shtetl in pre-World War II. A young Jewish couple's romance is doomed by the arrival of a gypsy troupe and its sultry dancer. This dark comic melodrama encompasses the full cycle of life including abduction, seduction, dybbuks, exorcism, weddings and pograms. 78 min. vhs 999:3788
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- María de la O (1959 )
- Directed by Ramón Torrado. Cast: Lola Flores, Manuel Luna, Antonio Gonzalez, Manuel Arbo, Aurora Garcia Alonso.
Luis Suarez is a rich landowner who is found wounded by a traveling gypsy clan. They take him in and cure him, saving him from the probability of a certain death. Luis spends days traveling with them and is eventually pledged with Maria de la O, a handsome gypsy who has been engaged to Miguel, who also travels with the clan. Luis asks Maria to leave the clan and go away with him to his world which is very different from the one she knows. Unexpectedly, she accepts his proposal... In Spanish without English subtitles. 94 min. DVD 8600
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- Mondo (France, 1996)
- Directed by Tony Gatlif. Cast: Ovidiu Balan, Philippe Petit, Pierrette Fesch, Schahla Aalam, Jerry Smith, Maurice Maurin. Mondo, a 10-year-old gypsy boy, mysteriously appears in Nice, France and begins asking strangers if they would like to adopt him. As he wanders, he befriends a magician, a Vietnamese woman, a fisherman, and others. 78 min. vhs 999:3788
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- Gypsies are Found Near Heaven (Tabor ukhodit v nebo) (Soviet Union, 1995)
- Directed by Emil Loteanu. Cast: Grigore Grigoriu, Svetlana Toma, Ion Sandri Shkurya, Pavel Andreichenko, Sergiu Finiti, Borislav Brondukov, Lialya Chornaya, Nelli Volshaninova, Vsevolod Gavrilov, Barasbi Mulayev, Mikhail Shishkov, Nikolai Volshaninov, Vassily Simich, Yelena Sadovskaya.
This colorful, music-filled and sensual melodrama based on early stories by Maxim Gorky tells the fatal love story between the beautiful and rebellious girl Rada and the handsome horse thief Zobar. The story is set in early 20th century Bessarabia, now part of Moldova, then belonging to the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Special features: Maxim Gorky's biography; interviews with actress S. Toma and composer Y. Doga; filmographies; photo album. Based on a story by Maxim Gorky. 101 min.DVD 7855
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- Sueños de oro (Mexico / Spain, 1958)
- Directed by Miguel Zacarías. Cast: Lola Flores, Julio Aldama, Felix Gonzalez, Carmen Flores.
In this musical comedy the beautiful gypsy Carmen flees to avoid being forced into an arranged marriage to a man she does not love. She runs into the director of a show and convinces him that she should join his troup to sing and dance in Mexico. In Spanish without English subtitles. 79 min. DVD 8582
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- Tiefland (Austria / West Germany, 1954)
- Directed Leni Riefenstahl. Cast: Leni Riefenstahl, Franz Eichberger, Bernhard Minetti, Maria Koppenhofer, Luis Rainer. Set in 18th century Catalonia, Marquez Don Sebastian in debt due to bad harvests, marries the mayor's daughter in order to increase his wealth and sends his mistress, Martha, to live with Pedro, the shepherd. Pedro and the beautiful gypsy Martha fall in love and the film ends with Don Sebastian and Pedro fighting a final duel. Based on the opera Tiefland, by Eugen d'Albert. Originally produced as motion picture in the 1940's; released in 1954. 97 min. 999:2897
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- Time of the Gypsies (Dom za vesanje) (UK / Italy / Yugoslavia, 1989)
- Directed by Emir Kusturica. The story of Pheran, a life-loving young gypsy with telekinetic gifts. Lured by promises of wealth, he leaves his beloved grandmother and girlfriend to join the gang of Ahmed, a flamboyant criminal with a scam for all seasons. 136 min. 999:2983
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- The Vagabond (USA, 1916)
- Directed by Charles Chaplin. Cast: Cast: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell, Charlotte Mineau.
Chaplin, the wandering violinist, rescues a young girl who has been kidnapped by gypsies. Her mother takes her back home, leaving Charlie broken-hearted. 19 min. DVD 5757
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- Vengo (Spain / France / Germany / Japan, 2000)
- Directed by Tony Gatlif, Alvaro Alonso. Cast: Ana Sousa ; production designers, Brigitte Brassart, Denis Mercier.
Antonio Canales, Orestes Villasan Rodriguez, Antonio Perez Dechent, Bobote, Juan Luis Corrientes, Fernando Guerrero Rebollo, Francisco Chaveco Rios, Jose Ramirez el Cheli, Juan Luis Barrios Llorente.
After his brother has murdered a member of a rival gypsy clan and gone into hiding, Caco becomes both the de facto figurehead of his 'family' and protector of his handicapped nephew. As tension mounts between the two clans, the threats of revenge against the nephew for the crime of his father are played out against a backdrop of rapturous flamenco music and dance performances. 89 min. DVD 6459
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- Der Zigeunerbaron(Gypsy Baron) (West Germany, 1975)
- Directed by Arthur Maria Rabenalt. Cast: Paul Horbiger, Gerhard Riedmann, Margit Saad, Karl Schonbock, Oskar Sima, Maria Sebaldt, Peer Schmidt, Waltraut Haas. In 18th century Hungary, exiled Sandor Barinkay, the black-sheep son of a wealthy Hungarian family returns to reclaim his family estate from an unscrupulous pig farmer. He is also forced to choose between a marriage of convenience with haughty Arsena and a more romantic union with gypsy girl Saffi. In German. 101 min. 999:3007
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